Date	Time (NZ)	No	Pool	Match details	Location	Stadium
Fri Sept 9	20:30	1	A	New Zealand v Tonga	Auckland	Eden Park
Sat Sep 10	13:00	2	B	Scotland v Romania	Invercargill	Rugby Park Stadium
Sat Sep 10	15:30	3	D	Fiji v Namibia	Rotorua	Rotorua International Stadium
Sat Sep 10	18:00	4	A	France v Japan	Auckland	North Harbour Stadium
Sat Sep 10	20:30	5	B	Argentina v England	Christchurch	Stadium Christchurch
Sun Sep 11	15:30	6	C	Australia v Italy	Christchurch	Stadium Christchurch
Sun Sep 11	18:00	7	C	Ireland v USA	New Plymouth	Stadium Taranaki
Sun Sep 11	20:30	8	D	South Africa v Wales	Wellington	Wellington Regional Stadium
Wed Sep 14	14:30	9	D	Samoa v Namibia	Rotorua	Rotorua International Stadium
Wed Sep 14	17:00	10	A	Tonga v Canada	Whangarei	Northland Events Centre
Wed Sep 14	19:30	11	B	Scotland v Georgia	Dunedin	Carisbrook
Thurs Sep 15	19:30	12	C	Russia v USA	New Plymouth	Stadium Taranaki
Fri Sep 16	20:00	13	A	New Zealand v Japan	Hamilton	Waikato Stadium
Sat Sep 17	15:30	14	B	Argentina v Romania	Invercargill	Rugby Park Stadium
Sat Sep 17	18:00	15	D	South Africa v Fiji	Wellington	Wellington Regional Stadium
Sat Sep 17	20:30	16	C	Australia v Ireland	Auckland	Eden Park
Sun Sep 18	15:30	17	D	Wales v Samoa	Hamilton	Waikato Stadium
Sun Sep 18	18:00	18	B	England v Georgia	Christchurch	Stadium Christchurch
Sun Sep 18	20:30	19	A	France v Canada	Napier	McLean Park
Tues Sep 20	19:30	20	C	Italy v Russia	Nelson	Trafalgar Park
Wed Sep 21	19:30	21	A	Tonga v Japan	Whangarei	Northland Events Centre
Thurs Sep 22	20:00	22	D	South Africa v Namibia	Auckland	North Harbour Stadium
Fri Sep 23	20:30	23	C	Australia v USA	Wellington	Wellington Regional Stadium
Sat Sep 24	18:00	24	B	England v Romania	Dunedin	Carisbrook
Sat Sep 24	20:30	25	A	New Zealand v France	Auckland	Eden Park
Sun Sep 25	15:30	26	D	Fiji v Samoa	Auckland	Eden Park
Sun Sep 25	18:00	27	C	Ireland v Russia	Rotorua	Rotorua International Stadium
Sun Sep 25	20:30	28	B	Argentina v Scotland	Christchurch	Stadium Christchurch
Mon Sep 26	19:30	29	D	Wales v Namibia	New Plymouth	Stadium Taranaki
Tues Sep 27	17:00	30	A	Canada v Japan	Napier	McLean Park
Tues Sep 27	19:30	31	C	Italy v USA	Nelson	Trafalgar Park
Wed Sep 28	19:30	32	B	Georgia v Romania	Palmerston North	Arena Manawatu
Fri Sep 30	20:30	33	D	South Africa v Samoa	Auckland	North Harbour Stadium
Sat Oct 1	15:30	34	C	Australia v Russia	Christchurch	Stadium Christchurch
Sat Oct 1	18:00	35	A	France v Tonga	Wellington	Wellington Regional Stadium
Sat Oct 1	20:30	36	B	England v Scotland	Auckland	Eden Park
Sun Oct 2	13:00	37	B	Argentina v Georgia	Palmerston North	Arena Manawatu
Sun Oct 2	15:30	38	A	New Zealand v Canada	Wellington	Wellington Regional Stadium
Sun Oct 2	18:00	39	D	Wales v Fiji	Hamilton	Waikato Stadium
Sun Oct 2	20:30	40	C	Ireland v Italy	Dunedin	Carisbrook
Sat Oct 8	18:00	41		QF1: W Pool C v RU Pool D	Wellington	Wellington Regional Stadium
Sat Oct 8	20:30	42		QF2: W Pool B v RU Pool A	Christchurch	Stadium Christchurch
Sun Oct 9	18:00	43		QF3: W Pool D v RU Pool C	Wellington	Wellington Regional Stadium
Sun Oct 9	20:30	44		QF4: W Pool A v RU Pool B	Christchurch	Stadium Christchurch
Sat Oct 15	21:00	45		SF1: W QF1 v W QF2	Auckland	Eden Park
Sun Oct 16	21:00	46		SF2: W QF3 v W QF4	Auckland	Eden Park
Fri Oct 21	20:30	47		Bronze Final	Auckland	Eden Park
Sun Oct 23	21:00	48		Final	Auckland	Eden Park

International Cricket Council (ICC)

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.
The ICC has 97 members: 10 Full Members that play official Test matches, 32 Associate Members, and 55 Affiliate Members. The ICC is responsible for appointing the umpires and referees that officiate at all sanctioned Test matches and One-day Internationals. The ICC derives most of its revenue from the rights to the Cricket World Cup. It promulgates the ICC Code of Conduct, which sets professional standards of discipline for international crickets, and also co-ordinates action against corruption and match-fixing through its Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU).
The current President is Percy Sonn of South Africa who replaced Ehsan Mani on 7 July 2006. The current CEO is Malcolm Speed

ICC History

On June 15, 1909 representatives from England, Australia and South Africa met at Lord's and founded the Imperial Cricket Conference. Membership was confined to the governing bodies of cricket within the British Empire where Test cricket was played. India, New Zealand and West Indies were elected as Full Members in 1926, doubling the number of Test-playing nations to six. After the formation of Pakistan in 1947, it was given Test status in 1953, becoming the seventh Test-playing nation. South Africa resigned from the ICC in 1961 due to apartheid.
In 1965, the Imperial Cricket Conference was renamed the International Cricket Conference and new rules adopted to permit the election of countries from outside the Commonwealth. This led to the expansion of the Conference, with the admission of Associate Members. Associates were each entitled to one vote, while the Foundation and Full Members were entitled to two votes on ICC resolutions. Foundation Members retained a right of veto.
Sri Lanka was admitted as a Full Member in 1981, returning the number of Test-playing nations to seven. In 1989, new rules were adopted and International Cricket Conference changed its name to the current name, the International Cricket Council. South Africa was re-elected as a Full Member of the ICC in 1991, after the end of apartheid; this was followed in 1992 by the admission of Zimbabwe as the ninth Test-playing nation. Bangladesh was admitted as the tenth Test-playing nation in 2000.

ICC Rules and regulation

The International Cricket Council overlooks playing conditions, bowling reviews, and other ICC regulations. Even though the ICC doesn't have copyright to the laws of cricket and only the MCC may change the laws, nowadays this would usually only be done after discussions with the game's global governing body, the ICC. The ICC also has a "Code of Conduct" to which teams and players in international matches are required to adhere. Where breaches of this code occur the ICC can apply sanctions, usually fines. In 2006 the ICC imposed 27 penalties on players.

ICC Members

The ICC has three classes of membership: Full Members, the ten governing bodies of teams that play official Test matches; Associate Members, the 33 governing bodies in countries where cricket is firmly established and organised but which do not qualify for Full Membership; and Affiliate Members, the 58 governing bodies in countries where the ICC recognises that cricket is played according to the Laws of Cricket.

Location

From its formation the ICC had Lord's Cricket Ground as its home with offices in the "clock tower" building at the nursery end of the ground. However as the commercial element of the Council's operations became prominent the ICC sought ways to avoid tax liability on commercial income. This led, in 2001, to the establishment of an office in Monaco to which all of the commercial staff relocated. This move successfully removed the Council's tax liability however there was a disadvantage in that the Council's cricket administrators, who remained at Lord's, were separated from their commercial colleagues who had moved to Monaco. The council decided to seek ways of bringing all of their staff together in one office whilst protecting their commercial income from tax.
The option of staying at Lord's was investigated and a request was made, through Sport England, to the British Government to allow the ICC to have all its personnel (including those working on commercial matters) in London - but be given special exemption from paying UK corporation tax on its commercial income. The British Government was unwilling to create a precedent and would not agree to this request. As a consequence the ICC examined other locations and eventually settled on the emirate of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In August 2005 the ICC moved its offices to Dubai, and subsequently closed its offices at Lord's and Monaco. The move to Dubai was made after an 11-1 vote by the ICC's Executive Board in favour.
Whilst the principal driver of the ICC's move to Dubai was the wish to bring its main employees together in one tax efficient location, a secondary reason was the wish to move offices closer to the increasingly important new centres of cricketing power in South Asia. Lord's had been a logical venue when the ICC had been administered by the MCC (a situation that lasted until 1993). But the growing power of India, Pakistan and to a lesser extent Sri Lanka, in world cricket had made the continued control of international cricket by a British private members club (the MCC) anachronistic and unsustainable. A direct consequence of the changes and reforms instituted in 1993 was eventually to be the move away from Lord's to a more neutral venue.

Mumbai to host 2011 cricket world cup final

The organising committee for the 2011 Cricket World Cup has said that the inaugural ceremony of the mega event will be held in Dhaka, while Lahore and Colombo will host the semi-finals and finals will be held in Mumbai. It has also promised a spectator-friendly tournament with affordable ticket prices.
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will be co-hosting the month-long extravaganza in four years' time. "We promise a spectator-and media-friendly World Cup in four years time," said, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Chairman Sharad Pawar, after the organisers' first meeting in Bhurban, a northern hill resort near Islamabad. "We will make unrelenting efforts to make the event a spectacular one so that more and more people come and watch the best cricket," Pawar was quoted as saying in 'The News'. "We assure that prices of the tickets will be affordable to the local paying capacity," he added.
The committee also held discussions on the option of common vis
as for citizens of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, based on the pattern the Caribbean nations adopted in the just concluded World Cup. "The possibility of a common visa will also be explored through talks with the governments," said Pawar.
Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Nasim Ashraf said the committee will seek grants from the ICC for developing cricket grounds in all the four countries. Lahore, Karachi, Rawalpindi and Faisalabad would host the World Cup matches in Pakistan.
Pakistan's eastern cultural hub at Lahore was chosen, as the headquarters of the World Cup 2011. The four countries from the subcontinent beat the joint bid from Australia and New Zealand to stage the 2011 World Cup. Australia and New Zealand will now host the 2015 edition.
Besides Pawar and Ashraf, the meeting was attended by Bangladesh Cricket Board CEO Mehmood-ur-Rahman and Sri Lankan Cricket Board Chief Executive Dilip Mendies. The next organising committee meeting will be held in India later this year.

Bangladesh:

6 games (including the opening ceremony and opening match)
Venue (one from three will be picked): Bangabandhu National Stadium (Dhaka; the stadium was officially handed over to the football federation in March 2005), Narayanganj Osmani Stadium (Fatullah), Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium (Mirpur)

Sri Lanka:

9 games (including one semi-final)
Venues: R. Premadasa Stadium (Colombo), Sinhalese S.C. (Colombo)